The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-06-05
HOMELESS RULE IN UTAH.

There is not crowd in the United
States that will not shout itself hoarse
at the mention of the name of the
Grand Old Man. Gladstone, to-day,
stands forth as the apostle of liberty, as
the counsel for the masses in the great
cause of Popular freedom against royal
tprerogative. He is the chief exponent
of that principle SO obviously indis.
penssble TO freedom-the elementary
principle of home rule. The tyrannical
sway and brutal exaotions of Roman
despots under the proconsular system
of the empire, were the logical results
OF scheme of government in which
the people had no voice, and the
will of a distant Senate or the
unbridled pleasure and cupidity OF
q foreign emperor were absolute.
The attempt of George the Third and
his parliaments to govern the American
colonies and to tax them without repre.
sentation led to the Revolution and to
independence. Governments may be
broadly divided into two classes; one
class which recognizes the inherent
right Of Kings to certain powers more
or less extended; and another, which
proclaims all just powers of govern
ment to be derived from the consent of
the governed. One is monarchy; the
other, democracy. One is despotism.
more or less modified; the other,
liberty. What colossal presumption
that the naughty Briton should as
sumo to make laws in regulation of
Celtic affairs! 1t is nothing in the world
but the tyranny of force; the bully |
and his victims. Naturally the Irish |
desire to determine for themselves the
character of their government, and why |
can they not do sof Beeause their |
powerful neighbors choose to attend to |
that little matter themselves. 1t is
trespsss, false Imprisonment. and |
as unlawful in the sight of
God, the srbiter of nations, as are the
trespass and false imprisonment OF the
law books il the view of q Middlese1
jury. When men regulate their own
affairs, there will l. be liberty; when
other people regulate them. there is
dsspotism-the yoke may be light,
pressed down onlyby taxes to support
monarchy in luxurious idleness or to
purchase the pomp of ceremony, but
still it exists. It is in the realiz alton of
such eternal truths as these, that the
people of the country applaud the
Iabors of the heart and head of Glad
stone; audit is these very labors that
Will cause the man, as viewed from the
vantage ground of coming centuries, to
stand forth pre- emiIient as the European
statesman of the century.
But while we would not diminish one
Whit the current of sympathy for tine
misery and misrule of the Irish, that
lows so strongly throughout all parts
If the United States, we cannot re-
rain from expressing surprise thar
/ nation so free to criticise the
'fense of Great Britain are themselves
greater offenders in the same respect.
The misery of Ireland, although
argely due to the evils of foreign rule,
5 yet more largely the heritage et
ormer ages. With eighty Parnellite
otes, and number of anti-home rule ..
otes, in the Parliament that shapes
er affairs, Ireland cannot complain OF |
eing entirely without influence. Bat ,
ow isitwith our American Territories !
he system of misgovernment forced I
pom them is indeed the beam in QUE
WI eye which should be cast out be- :
IRE We presume 20 remove the mote ]